Saturday, January 10, 2009

Leftovers

This is stuff I collected while looking for images to illustrate my posts. An early Walt Kelly page.

A modern image that uses no principles, but imitates superficially some Disney-isms.

Here's one that does from an old Golden Book of Johnny Appleseed - note the little George Liquor icon next to Hello Kitty. Kali thought maybe fans might wanna buy collections of Spumco Character icons for their own computer programs and files. What do you think?Fred Astaire was very aware of the power of good silhouettes in his dancing.

Here's Dustin who I think I met at Meltdown awhile ago.I wish I had this button. You should see Mike Fontanelli's button collection. You'd kill yourself.Here's a Jellystone thing.

Here are Puffy Stickers. I used to have a million of these on my fridge. Do they still make them?I was trying to explain this comic series to Mike F. the other day and he didn't believe that Sniffles had a human girlfriend. Anyway, I like this artist but don't know his name. He also drew Scamp and lots of other comics. Anyone know who it is?

John, Have you ever done a post centering on "funny animal" stories? They are definitely my favorite. I am a caricaturist, so I understand and appreciate the great variety in the faces of humans. When animals are used in place of humans in comics, I think it makes them even more universally appealing. Anyone can put themselves in the characters shoes.

I will have to think about this and make a post. It has always interested me. Thanks for even more awesome reference material, and also THANKS for the very helpful critique on my comic cover. I was trying to be aware of negative spaces, but I got too caught up in trying to make the characters feel solid. Seeing how the bump on Bugs' chest reduced the "stretch" in his pose was very clarifying. My next copy will be much better, probably!

For as far as I know Al Hubbard was an animator/inbetweener for some of the early Disney movies. I nearly only know his work through the comics that have been published here in the Netherlands. He did many of the comic adaptions of the Disney movies. I wish I could tell you some more now, but I'm in quite a hurry now and will be away for a while.I recommend checking coa.inducks.org for a complete index of his Disney (comic) work and other information. There should also be a short biography on lambiek.net.

Al Hubbard did a lot of great adaptions of Disney films and he even drew a comic adaption of Mickey Roony's famous character Andy Hardy.

I also noticed for the first time in that Sultan picture that the water appears to be a thread coming out of his feather and rising into the air because they're both identical colors. It just looks really wonky as a still frame.

you started out great, but then you brought me down with that Alladin poop. I think they still do make puffy stickers, if I'm wrong then somebody needs to bring them back. and I also didn't think sniffles would have a human girlfriend either... I want to find a lot of buttons, you can make some your self you know! If you go to Micheal's.